Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a tapejara used for? tapejara battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Interesting bird. It can hold three people: driver and two passengers. The two passengers face opposite directions (front and back) and can shoot ranged weapons. It can land on the side but of a cliff or even on ceilings. While perched on the side of a cliff, the Tapejara will recover stamina, but much slower than normal. It can also strafe, which can be useful for centering a shot for your passengers.
Speed: This is bird is real slow. Argys are faster.
Pickup: Similar pickup ability to the Pteranodon.
Weight: Very good weight. We use it in our metal runs until we get an Argy.
Combat: Nothing special. Maybe similar to a Pteranodon.
Stamina: Good. You can be up in the air a long time, but travel similar distances to a Pteranodon before landing due to speed.
This bird makes taming creatures easier since you can easily fire on the target with a passenger. You can avoid taming boxes for many tames.
These things are so underrated and arguably one of the best midgame tames:
- Can be used to solo tame Quetzals
- Able to hang from surfaces where u can tame dinos from
- If you’re above a body of water and switch seats, you can float in the air where u can easily shoot dinos from (this happens because there isnt a body of land nearby)
A great taming mount with friends! Have one person drive and another shoot tranqs, makes tranqing flying creatures like argies and quetz a breeze, but you can also use this technique to tranq just about anything. Solo, you can hook onto walls such as cliff sides and try to fire from the saddle, although the angle tends to be difficult.
Otherwise, it makes a great "pick up" mount, use it to pick up friends that may have lost their flying mount or otherwise stranded themselves far from home.
However they are quite slow, consider putting a number of points in speed and a few in weight, especially if you want to keep up with fleeing quetz. With enough weight they can become an interesting alternative to an argy.
I once found a helpful glitch with the Tapejara. I was solo taming a quetzal, when I discovered that if you change to a passenger seat and reload your gun, the Tapejara’s stamina automatically refills. I know it works on mobile with the Tapejara, but I don’t know if it works on other editions or on other dinos.
These things make every knockout tame(except titanosuar) a piece of cake
If you have a friend you can just put them in the front passenger seat and you can fly while they rain tranqs upon you're target
If you're alone these things can hang on cliffs and redwood trees and when you're hanging you can use weapons and shoot you're target with tranqs
Long story short these things are worth it
English/Ingles
Be careful how you walk near these creatures, as a startled Tapejara will fly away in such panic that you wont be able to catch it again for quite some time unless you wait for it to land again.
Ghillie suits generally make them harder to startle(i.e. you have to get much closer before they startle).
Spanish/Espanol
Ten cuidado con la forma en que caminas cerca de estas criaturas, ya que un Tapejara sobresaltado volará con tal pánico que no podrás volver a atraparlo durante bastante tiempo a menos que esperes a que aterrice nuevamente.
Los trajes Ghillie generalmente hacen que sea más difícil sobresaltalos (es decir, debes acercarte mucho más antes de que se sobresaltan).
This boi Is the most mobile of all fliers, 3 seats (1 pilot, 2 passengers) and can carry another one guy, it can carry less creatures than the ptera can, It can land anywhere and it has a tek saddle, with all of this it can be better than the griffin, it may have worse stats than it but unlike the griffin it can be bred (it means you can imprint it) and has a tek saddle too while the griffin got no saddle and that means less resistance, also tek saddle = blasts, it's a must tame especially because of the tek saddle as the tape is the only flyer with one so it has advantage over so many creatures, even a giga if you are careful enough to keep a safe distance, go tame It bois.